Although Muraine admits that human pyramids are not that hard, it is not his area of expertise.

Muraine specializes in a kind of dancing called “popping,” and that skill secured his place as one of the main characters in “Cirque Dreams Illumination.”

Muraine described “popping” as “a West Coast style of the robot.” It involves a large amount of flexibility and rhythm, while making the human body seem as though it is boneless.

Muraine has high hopes for the show.

“I would like to make it to Broadway with this tour,” he said. “It’s something that I want to do, and I think it will happen.”

BACKSTAGE PASS

NORTH COAST REP DOES NORDIC

They’re not exactly the Glimmer Twins. More like the Glummer Twins.

But Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, those two scathing Scandinavians, do bring heat and heft to the stage. And both of the late playwrights get a showcase this month at North Coast Rep.

Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghost”: The theater’s one-two punch of Nordic dysfunction begins this week with Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” the scandalous 1881 piece by Norway’s most famous playwright. Rep artistic chief David Ellenstein directs SDSU prof Anne-Charlotte Harvey’s brand-new translation of the work about a proper family rocked by infidelity, disease and disgrace. His cast features Rosina Reynolds, Jonathan McMurtry, Richard Baird, John Herzog and Aimee Burdette.

“Ghosts” runs through May 2. (858) 481-1055 or northcoastrep.org

August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie”: NCRT also hosts Stone Soup Theatre’s long-awaited revival of Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” the best-known play by the pioneering Norwegian. The 1888 work explores the tense power relationship between an upper-class woman and a household servant.